Trachenau

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Trachenau a village was south of Leipzig , which with its neighborhood Treppendorf in 1962, the lignite mining of II mine Witznitz fell victim. Only the former district of Gaulis survived the time of lignite mining. In 1964 the corridors of the devastated Trachenau and Treppendorf as well as Gaulis were incorporated into Böhlen . Today they are in the district of Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony .

location

Trachenau with Treppendorf and Gaulis on a map from 1908,
still without the Rötha reservoir
The manor house around 1850
The church around 1840
The Friedrichsstift
Greeting card from Trachenau

Trachenau was like its former districts Treppendorf and Gaulis south of Leipzig , Böhlen and Rötha on the west bank of the original course of the Pleiße . Trachenau and Treppendorf were located south of the Rötha reservoir , the southern part of which, like the two places, disappeared due to lignite mining. Gaulis lies west of the reservoir.

The recultivated site of Trachenau is today about 700 meters south of the Trachenauer Pleißewehr near the southwest end of the Rötha reservoir. The former location of Treppendorf is on the western edge of the Kahnsdorfer See .

history

Trachenau was first mentioned in 1157 in connection with an Otto de Thraconov. The former knight's seat developed into a manor in the 17th century . The owners were the Ponickau , Minckwitz , Wiedemann and Peres families . It came from the Schönfeld family to the Friesens in neighboring Rötha in 1783 for 34,000 thalers . In 1923 the von Friesen had to cede the manor Trachenau to the Saxon State Treasury for the planned coal mining .

Already between the 6th and 10th centuries there is said to have been a Sorbian settlement in the area of ​​the later Trachenau. In 1430 Trachenau was hit by the Hussites . During the Thirty Years' War , the residents of Trachenau suffered from plague and plunder .

The place was also frequently affected by floods from the Pleiße, such as a particularly devastating one in 1771. In 1701 the tower of the church was damaged by lightning. Between 1751 and 1754 the old church was demolished and a new one was built in the same place, this time without a tower. The bells were now hanging in the roof. The church was a rectangular tile-roofed structure with a polygonal end. In 1760 the then landowner JG von Schönfeld donated an organ to the church, which was built by the organ builder Jacob Oertel .

In 1874 a Christian nursing home, the Friedrichstift, was opened. A paper mill opened in 1907, and the school was rebuilt in 1911.

Until 1856, Trachenau and Treppendorf were in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Borna , while Gaulis was in the Leipzig district office . From 1856 Trachenau and Gaulis belonged to the Rötha court office , Treppendorf to the Borna court office . In 1875 all three towns were incorporated into the Borna district administration.

In 1935 Gaulis and Treppendorf were incorporated into Trachenau. North of Trachenau and east of Gaulis, the Rötha reservoir was built between 1938 and 1942 for flood protection and for the region's developing lignite industry.

After construction site 2 was opened in 1960 in the Witznitz II opencast mine to the south of the village with the construction of the Kahnsdorf pivot point , the imminent end of Trachenau and Treppendorf was within reach. In preparation for coal mining, the Pleiße was led around the opencast mine in the west. Trachenau (450 inhabitants) and Treppendorf (120 inhabitants) were relocated between 1962 and 1965 and dredged over in 1968/69. A memento of Trachenau is a large wooden crucifix, probably created in the first half of the 16th century, which now hangs in the Borna town church .

A short time later, the southern part of the Rötha reservoir and the Kreudnitz location were devastated. In 1964, the corridors of the two excavated places were incorporated into Böhlen, together with the place Gaulis, which had been spared from the opencast mine.

At the time of German reunification in 1989/90, Gaulis was also affected by the planned resettlement and devastation by the Witznitz II opencast mine. By 2015, around 50 million tons of coal should be mined in the Gaulis mining field. However, the change in economic policy that accompanied German reunification led to a drastic decline in the demand for lignite, which meant that the open-cast mine was shut down early by 1993 despite the presence of deposits. Thus Gaulis was spared the resettlement and demolition.

Web links

Commons : Trachenau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlossarchiv.de
  2. ↑ State Archives Leipzig
  3. ↑ a b c Ina Gutzeit: Monuments in the brown coal mining area Leipzig South - possibilities and limits of the preservation of monuments in dealing with sacred monuments and their equipment . Diplomica Verlag 2007, p. 56
  4. ^ Album of the manors and castles of the Kingdom of Saxony. Leipziger Kreis, Leipzig 1860, p. 182
  5. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
  6. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
  7. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
  8. ↑ Trachenau on gov.genealogy.net
  9. ^ History of the Witznitz opencast mine with a description of the devastated places

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 38.6 "  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 41.4"  E